Russian Aerospace Forces To Get S-350 Vityaz Air Defense Weapon In 2019 - Ministry
Sumaira FH Published December 30, 2018 | 05:33 AM
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 30th December, 2018) Russia's Aerospace Forces will get their first medium-range surface-to-air missile system S-350 Vityaz next year, the Defense Ministry said.
"In 2019, the Aerospace Forces will receive the brand-new missile system, S-350 Vityaz, for the first time ever," the statement reads.
The troops will also be equipped with around a dozen of Pantsir-S air defense missile-gun systems and S-400 Triumf (NATO reporting name: SA-21 Growler) long-range air defense weapons, the ministry added.
Russian troops stationed in the Khabarovsk, Leningrad, Kaliningrad, and Crimea regions as well as in the Arctic were supplied with Pantsir-S and S-400 weapons earlier this year.
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